Roller bearing



Oct, 1932. F TYSON I 1,884,395

ROLLER BEARING Filed Spt. 8, 1930 Patented Oct. 25, 1932 PATENT OFFICE;

FRANK TYSON, OF CANTON, OHIO ROLLER BEARING Application filed September 8, 1930. Serial Re. 480,888.

The invention relates particularly to taper bearings, and more especially to an improved construction of cup for such bearings.

In the practical application of taper roller 6 bearings it is customary practice to fix the cone upon a shaft or axle and to drive fit the cup into a socket, of slightly less diameter than the cup; said socket being formed in a hub or other element having a relative rotary movement with respect to the shaft.

By thus driving the cup into an opening of less diameter, the inner or bearing surface of the cup is distorted sufiicientlyto prevent the rollers from bearing on the entire surface thereof.

An important object of the present improvement is to provide a roller bearing having a cup peripherally grooved at spaced points, in order to produce a certain amount of flexibility in the cup whereby the same may be driven into a socket or opening of less diameter without distorting the inner or bearing surface of the cup.

Another principal object of the invention is to provide a uniform texture of metal in the hardening process throughout that portion of the cup contained within a line drawn parallel to the bearing surface of the cup from its periphery at its smaller end, or at the end of its greatest diameter of opening.

Another object is to provide these grooves of such size and relative spacing that the cup is substantially divided thereby into a plurality of joined rings each of substantially the same cross sectional area.

A further object of the improvement is to provide a novel locking device for rigidly connecting the retaining ring to the cone, in

order to hold the rollers in assembled condi-- tion upon the cone, when the cup is removed therefrom.

The above and other objects, apparent from an inspection of the accompanying drawing, and from the following detail description, may be attained by constructing the improved bearing in the manner illustrated in the drawing, in which Figure 1 is an edge elevation of the peripherally grooved cup forming a part of the invention;

the locking device for the retaining ring;

Fig. 2, an elevation of the improved hearing" Fig. 3, an enlarged, fragmentary elevat1on of a part of the bearing illustrating gig. 4, a'section on the line 4-4, Fig. 3, an

Fig. 5, a detached perspective view of one of the ring locking devices.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawing.

The bearing comprises generally the cone 10 and cup 11, having outer and inner bearing surfaces respectively, between and upon which the taper rollers 12 are mounted for as rotation.

A thrust or abutment flange 13 is rigidly connected to, or formed integrally with the larger end of the cone 10, and may be provided with an annular groove 14 in the reentrant, or hollow cone thrust surface 15 thereof, to receive the pintles 16 at the larger ends of the rollers.

Pintles 17 may also be formed upon the smaller ends of the rollers, for engagement in the annular groove 18 of the retaining ring 19. The rollers are thus retained in assembled condition u on the cone, when the cup is removed there om.

For the purpose of rigidly connecting the retaining ring to the cone, a plurality of locking devices 20 are provided, each having an axial shank portion 21 and an eccentric head 22 at its inner end.

The inner annular edge of the retaining ring is provided with spaced openings 23, adapted to receive the shank portions 21 of the locking devices, and pockets 24 are 1 formed in the interior side of the ring, to permit the locking devices to be rotated upon 99 their axes so that the eccentric heads 22 thereof may be received in the pockets, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, in order that the ring with the locking devices therein, may be positioned upon the smaller end of the cone.

The shanks of the locking devices are then rotated, by means of a suitable tool, until the eccentric heads 22 thereof, are engaged in the annular groove 25 of the cone, as shown It will also 2 v 1,ee4,aea

in Figs. 3 and 4, after which the end of each ing an inner raceway surface and a plurality shank 21 is upset, as by a center punch, or of rollers rolling on and between the racethe like, in the manner shown at 26. way surfaces the cup bein provided with The construction of the cup 11, is a very spaced peripheral grooves ividin the cup 5 lmportant feature of the invention and con-' into a plurality ofjoined rings 0 substanr sists generally in the provision of peripheral tlally equal cross sectional area.

ves 27 and 28 in the outer cylindric sur- 5. A taper roller bearing including a cone ace of the cup, which divide the cup into having an outer ramway surface, a cup havthree ring ortions, indicated by the dotted mg an inner raceway surface and a plurality lines 29 in igure 4, the ring fortions indiof rollers rolling on and between the race- 75 cated at 30, 31 and 32 being 0 substantially way surfaces, a thrust flange rigidly conequal cross sectional area. 7 nected to one end of the cone, a retaining ring The groove 27 is dee r and may be wider at the inner end of the cone and locking memthan the roove 28 so t at a line, as indicated bers havin axial shanks carried by the ring at a-a rawn through the inner sides of and prov1 ed with eccentric heads, the cone w the two grooves and from the peripheral having a peripheral groove to receive said edge of t e smaller end of the cup, will be ds. substantially parallel to the conical bearing 6. A taper roller bearing including a cone surface 33 of the on the groov being 0 havmg an outer raceway surface a cup havdifierent de ths, so at the bottoms thereof g n in r ra y eurfeee n e p y as are substantially e fuidistent'from the inner f r ll r rolhng n d w en the ra e. conical bearing sur ace of the cup. y rfac s, a thrust flange r1g1dly con- By this construction the cup is sufiiciently neoted to one end of the cone, a retain ng flexible to rxnit the same to be driven into g at t e m e d o the e nd lo king a socket s ightly smaller in diameter than members having axial shanks carried by the go the outside diameter of the cup without disring and pr edjvlth eccentllc heads, fi tortin the inner bearing surface 33,whereb pe h vmg a p r p l g o ve to r e v th 91's 12, ill h v lli t t it said heads and means for holding the locking the cup throu hout their len hs. membels m locked p f seen th t w en thi cu i In testimony that I claim the above I have as heat treated a hardened skin as indicat at hereunto Bubscflbed y name- I 34, is formed not only around the entire FRANK TYSON- outer surfaces of the cup but around the surfaces of the grooves 27 and 28 as indicated I 35 at 34', thus providing hardened surfaces in the line H at oints appreciablycloser to the bearing-sur ace 33 of the cup than is ible under ordinary practice where the usual solid cup is used.

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1. A taper roller bearing including a cone having an outer raceway surface, a cup vhavmg an outer cylindric surface and a coni innerraceway surface and a lurality of roll- 46 ers rolling on and between t e raceway surm faces, the cup being provided with spaced ripher'al ooves of different depths with a ttoms su antiall equidistant. from the conical raceway sur ace.

2. A taper roller bearing including a cone Ill having an outer raceway surface, a cup having an inner raceway surface and a plurality of rollers rolling on and between the raceway surfaces, the cup being provided with 5 s aced peri heral grooves increasing in I ept-h tower the larger end of the cup.

3. A taper roller bearing including a'cone having an outer raceway surface, a cup havll? an inner raceway surface and a plurality 0 rollers rolling on and between the raceway 12 surfaces, the cup being provided with spaced peripheral grooves increasingin depth and J width toward the larger "end of the cup. 4. A taper roller bearing including a cone having an outer raceway surface, acup havll 

